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Mr. Vaughan (A) lunches DO YOUR THINK YOU TWO
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on cheese sandwiches
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FRANKIE VAUGHAN,
the sweet smile of suc- coas on his lipa, enme out of the studio into the con- trol room to hear a play. back of the morning's recording session.
An he listened with his own Zan-bitten cars to his own voice You've Got to Have singing Something in the Bank, Frank, the smile broadened to a bean. For Frank has plenty in the bank, thanks.
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He then kissed, in turn and with focling, the three Kaye Slaters who had accompanied him on the record, He smiled indulgently when one of them said: ""1 wouldn't have asked to be paid for this session it I'd
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known there was a kits from Mr Vaughan at the end of it." not however, kiss me, and said that we could now go to lunch. In his £2,000 Plymouth Belva- dere we drove to a public house where Mi Vaughan ordered cheese sandwiches and light ats,
Mr Vaughan turned to me, did...
of America. He Oles there in December .to make pernenal appearances in connection with his film The Dangerous Yeata, He will also turn up in radio record programmes, and it is nu coincidence that his long-player Happy Go Lucky will be arriving at the American record stores in December,
Possible film
He will also look in on Holly- Warner Brothers wood where want to talk to him about a posable Hollywood film,
•
KNOW THIS MAN?
IN the year of the Alanbrooke cannonade, at a time Churchill wrote that description
when General Kennedy's coming memoirs are about in the dark months of 1938 and
1039.. to raise the issue of Churchill's war role again, rend
THEY Pleture those months os they those words AND SAY WHOM YOU THINK
* looked to Church. He was out DESCRIBE:~
In the cold, rejected by his The
Innocents
In
New York
THE WAPSHOT CHRONI- CLE. By John Cheever. Gollancr. 751, 301 pagna.
Tdifferent,"
whole struggle do- spirit of England; to weld all own party, unnstleed by the
resources of wealth and People. pended on the energies of this her one man. He gathered all manhood into a single instru-
Across the Channel he adw administra-ment of war...: to conquer the German menace, Urgently power- Ananelal,
and military-Into his to Command, and nover tive
10 Churchill Bet out to rolly the hands. He could
is a charming, in work count the cost, whether own
people of Britain and America. with no one as an equal,
blood or goldthis spirit he is history was to sound the
American "Ho would tolerate na inter- infused into every renk of his rallying cry. It was to show novel. Charming is tho ference. .He broke Incom countrymen. His vast powers how we had cowed the tyrants operative word, for to charm petent generals and admirals of work and concentration tired in years past.
is its main intention, and them
with all who came into contact with whom ho him."
if it succeeds in working that charm with you, nothing else matters. It is
and replaced younger could rely."
men оп
Or These Words:-
Well, who do you imaging that is? Is a new portrait of Churchill-a portrait which takes just a few of Alan- brooke's Jaundiced colours and use them to heighten the giant figure?
And so, alone at his home in Kent, Winston Churchill came to the story of William Pitt. In 1750 Britain had been brought
plumped by the rule of
to near-ruin waverers and cowards.
Transformed Everywhere feudal France threatened our survival. Then Plit, long rejected, Willlam was called to power at last.
The sun shines bright on my When I remarked that this old Kentucky ham?, but not bull "His policy was a projection seemed frugal mean for a man as brightly as it does on Frankie on to a vast screen of his own who could afford to buy the vary Vaughan's Ave-bedroomed house aggressive, dominating per- pub we were eating in, he sala.. m London. NIW.
sonality, In the teeth of dis- "I cat what fancy and not Hear Frackic Vaughan now favour and obstruction he had
NO. Those words were not what people expect me to cat, on Man on Fire (Philips 78): made his way to the foremost written about Churchill. They Right now I fool Hike eating at the end of this month on place in Parliament, and now cheese sandwiches,”
You've Got to Have Something at last fortune, courage, and Were written by him. I take latest In the Bank, Frank (Philips 78); the confidence of his country- them from his description of Right now I conservatively
Everything_was transformed, estimate the weekly Vaughan n November on Happy Go men had given him a stage on the elder Pilt in the
dia- volume of his inspiring_1018-
Everywhore Plt's flerce direc- TORY OF THE ENGLISH- salary from records. TV, radio, Lucky (Philips 337, & selection which his gifts could be
of oldies
tives went out to the generals, that includes Shoe played."
SPEAKING music-halls and Slims of £1,250.
PEOPLES (Vol The French were smached on Go Lucky, Which is a lot of cheese sand- Shine Boy, Happy
III. The Age of Revolution, the Continent. The Dutch were Cassell, 30%.). wiches, and about 250 umes as You're Driving Me Crazy and
folled by Clive in Indin. Wolte much as he was earning Just I'm Coming, Virginia.
Although it was published for captured Quebec. eight income-tax returns ago by
Arst time last week,
th: How infinitely stirring
think of Churchill in the dark days looking back to Pitta example. And how Ironle to realise that not even Churchill could have seen then that within months he would eclipse that example himself.
a commercial artist in Leeds.
Life is good
"I can't complain," he says.
fe has been good to me." Consider how good,
Eight years ago he comic to London with £5 he had borrow- | ed from his father, a Jewish upholsterer. He thought It would bustain him until he got
He a job as an artist, wrong,
туля
"But before I went for the train home I called on a variety agent, told him I used to sing for the boys during Service social evenings and could he fix me up with an odd after-dinner date. I wanted to pay the old man
back his fiver,"
The agent got him an engage-
hall.
week.
two
Or These
-[London Expraks Services,
the
"To call into life and action depressed and languld
the
FICTION SHELF By Harold M. Harris
A
ENEMIES. CHOICE OF By Mordecai Richler. Detach. 130, Gd-Do they exist-the of fugitives from the colony
for un-American Committee
a shut-off, Activities, leading
In unreal life of their own London? Richler makes them the stagnant pool, real. Into
idind of re he drops another fugoen not so juvenile de- linquent from Eastern Germany,
A
100
"), it allows the dying tyrant to give a convincing ac- count of his military cams paigns, but not, for all his cloquence, to justify the cruel oppression that made him notorious to generations of
schoolboys.
:
The subject is distasteful- the pursuit and seduction of a 14-year-old Australian school- boy by a sophisticated, thrice married widow of 41. But handled with straightforward tact, it becomes a moving study af adolescence; rather than an Inquiry into the lady's state of mind.
Other new books
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● THE SHADOW OF TIME,
filmed.
out with ripe characters and bizarre in- cidents. There's not exactly a story, for it is, as the title Bays, a chronicle, in other worda a haphazard meander through the doings of a quaint family.
The Wapshots are a loony lot who inhabit St Botolphs, a decaying inland port in New England. They have been there a long time and decayed a long time.
Hend of the family is crazy old aunt Honora who lives by herself in a large house in a remote corner of the town, and has the money. She has willed it to Moses and Coverly, the sons of her impecunious brother, Leander, who runs that old pleasure boat that plies down the river and ucroSS the estuary to the fair ground resort on the other side.
A cranky, salty old character this one, who keeps a journal mostly in monosyllables and has wise and earthy view of life.
B
by Christopher Landen. A novel with a grim topical theme the search for a missing little girl. But what la unendurable in real life becomes fascinating in this taut, tense plece of fiction. Author Landon has also written
• THE BIG STOREY. By
Ice-Cold in Alez, shortly to be Morris West. Heinemann, 199.
He once was a stock 6d. For Richard Ashley PANTLY SUBMERGED. By broker, But whatever happens newspaperinan in Ben Maasslink. Methuen, 16th the Bankrota his novels. a strewd investment. Somato, the big story is the Short stories some guy, SUED Are exposure of the Duke of dramatic, some sentimental... | (Heinemann, 131, 08.)
dissipated Italian
on Pacific Islands and corrupt politi
beaches, in the longest and elun. To get proof, Ashley best, enough material for a full- THE AMAZING WORLD OF
JOHN BOAINE, br through length novel, is compressed into gearme. strong-arms his way
John The startling life-his- an aristocratic underworld of 60 pages: delightful tale of (ory
of the famous American man of action and Coverly unscrupulous men and betrayed four schoolboys who set up a
card-trickster and gambler. the artistic one, and they womeo, not to mention a couple republie on a barren and of Even if your local whist-drive spend their childhood fish-
bang card-palming/ you can
John and
One can't go beyond the end of montat a provincial music-The ripples spread out in pn Ameri
At a salary of £100 antricate, briliantly contrived pattern of despair, failure, con- For Franklo Vaughan It wasleting loyalties, suicide. witly, heartless novel with Within as easy as that,
seid tang years he was topping bills, sing- ing on TV, signing record con- teagis and, forming a group of fan clubs, the members of which know him as Mr Moonlight.
10 Red dug?" 10).'"
18 Microber 1857
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20 Make a hit with the girls (3, 5),
This greed is well-known' (6), Should one give her a ring? ($1. 10 Inspirations (8).
Praise (5).
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28 Pane In the neck! (4).
FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acress: Scorcher, 8 Plan, 9 Masthead, 11 testores, 13 Oslo, 15 Storeman, 18 Sinister, 19 Graf, 21 Mijsories, 25 Prize- man, 28 Rain, 27 Sternest. Down: Spar. Taps, 4 Char, Rate,
& Mules. 10 Sedan, Enter Lite 14 Minimy, 17 Nino 10 Gapes, Afre, 21 Mean, 22 Nags, 23
(George) Sana.
This year Anna Neagle led him into a fun studio and made
dlm star of him.
Now this celebrated goo-goo eyes are turning in the direction
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"I THINK I'LL GO TO THE HALLOWEEN” PARTY- AS LITTLE 'MISS MUFFET?"
"HAVE YOU
ANY...
SUGGESTIONS
FOR ME ? "
„THAT'S A DANGEROUS QUESTION -----------
SHES SURE TO STICK TO THE SCRIPT AND SUGGEST BLEBEARD. OR SIMPLE SIMON.
⚫ THE SWORD OF PLEASURE, By Peter Green. Murray, 18s, Ascholarly, painstaking re- construction dianelent
corpams-A.cripping - tale
and the brutal career in a teise plimaz
reactionary dictator
Written as an: “autobiography ► A¬MINOR PORTRAIT. · · By ("I, : "Lucius ¿Contellus · Sullo di Mini- Giääkin. Barrie. 138. 64.
Operation Broomstick
KISSING GAMES -- AND NOT A GHOST
OF A CHANCE.
IT ISN'T EVERY DAY THAT A MAN. HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEAR THE OUTFIT GIVEN TO HIM ON FATHER'S DAY..
OOH, 1964 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVEDA,
THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF WEIRD CREATURES
ABROAD.
WISE GUY
set
the Californian const, and think that Washington has declared war, when the Pacife: fleet, on manocayres, lands Marines after a naval bombardment.
These two sons of his, Moses and Coverly, are will ed the money on the sole condition that they begat male heirs. Moses is the
read the chapter on loading ing and visiting the country dics and become the forror fairs and getting pre- of the family ludo-board. maturely excited about the (Constable, 358)
BY HARRY WEINERT
"IT'S ME- CLEOPATRA♫*
HALLOWEEN PERMITS YOU
TO BE YOUR FORMER SELF EVEN WITHOUT BEING”
HYPNOTIZED.
"Í DIDN'T FOOL „ANYBODYL THEY ALL. KNEW AME RIGHT AWAY
WHERE'S
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naked girls there and enjoy- ing the rhythm of the changing seasons and snif- fing the fog of the estuary and the fine scent of sorrel and roses and rue and ferms, and feeling the sap rising in their laina.
When that really happens, they go out into the great wide world of Washington and New York, respectively, to get them- selves their sons and the for- 'tunes that go with them.
Mistakes
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You might think, mighin't you, that all this was happen- ing a long, long time ago? But no, it is present-day Washing- ton and present-day New York that our two hayaceds set out to conquer. They are innocents abroad, and terrible but touch- ing (and of course channing) are the mistakes they make in the great cities,
Coverly settles in the end for an ingenuous blonde who ac- companies him to the ghastly atomic energy stations he is attached to, and hating their barrenness, loves him and leaves him but returns at last to give. him that son.
Moses has picked up with the dark and beautiful Mellesa, the orphaned ward of the widow of 'n five and 10 cent milionaire. This widow: Justina, lords it now over ɗ decaying castle 100 rooms filled with fakes, and ahe keeps Melissa and Moses In different wings, so he has climb over the roofs in his skin to visit her, sights.
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to
Melisag is a clouded girl, and Moses who is bursting with the fertility of his country upbring- ing can hardly stond il when sho turna all puritan and pure. Luckily ätter marriage sho turns. back again, "ánd the baby comes and it is a boy, mo`that's All right.
Meanwhile backet St Botolph atheis father, Leander,
•has foundered that old boat of fils which÷ld von him very:" sad "and", useless-decming, but he writes his sons many a letter of sage and aoxy advičs before he paseca to his fathers, and Cover- ly (the artistic one, you remʊm- ber) reads: Prospero's "famouE speech by request över, his oskus.. à Thly is quite ́al change, then, from, the average currant Ameri- can novel with a wordit realian.. Not that this one jan't: sordid, too, but in a, benithy) outdoor, quaintly a natural way. if you know what. I incan, "And -it has got cherm, bage of 11.
RICHARD LISTER
dos. Exprózy Zérátče),